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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1922
Page
9
Hungry and homeless, a Roxbury mother with six children and an infant dragged to Dudley street police station. Patrolmen carried her to a chair and, with help from Rev Fr John O'Brien of St Patrick's Church, secured lodging and meals for the family.
Mrs Mary Pregouka aged 32 of 44 Hampden Street Roxbury waits at the police station with seven children from one month to eight years old. They were evicted after 28 weeks in arrears. Landlord Arthur Seligal claims they have money from charity. Police and Father O'Brien arrange shelter and a fund raises six dollars and food. Riordan oversees collections among patrolmen.
Four men were injured when a one pound Hotchkiss shell exploded in the Green Waste Company offices in Newark New Jersey. Victims named include Max Green, president, his son Harry, and two junkmen Louis Baum and Barney Schalk. Police say the shell heated by sun caused the blast while the four were inside.
Robert Vaccaro born last Sunday is the 27th child of Angelo Vaccaro of 95 Third Street Everett. Vaccaro married twice and has five children from the first marriage, seven other children are dead, and with Jennie Mancuso since 1907 they have 16 children nine living. Two children from Mrs Vaccaro by a former marriage bring her to 17. Baby Robert is the only boy among the nine living with the couple. others are Rose 14 Annie 13 Mary 12 Josephine 11 Palma 6 Mildred 4 Christina 3 Helen 1.
W. W. Green, a Pomona businessman, shot himself after mistaking his wife for another woman seen with her sister at a party. A note declared his intent to leave his wife to the other man. The sister-in-law and her fiancé were the other pair Green confronted before the fatal act.
Lieutenant commander George W. Bowley, long time Coast Guard official at Provincetown, has been ordered to Buffalo in the ninth district after three decades of service. Bowley enlisted as a surfman in 1892 and rose to lieutenant commander in 1920, serving since 1904 as superintendent of the Provincetown life saving station.
Portland Maine July 19. Alexander M Linnett of Newark President of the United States League of Local Loan and Building Associations spoke at the annual convention urging greater female representation on financial boards. He praised Miss Ann E Rae of Niagara Falls retiring NY league president and second vice president of the national body saying she may lead the league next year.
Betty the prize winning German police dog, owned by Mrs. Pierce B. Ellison of 6 Church Street Bradford district, pursued an alleged horse thief who had fled police. Released by Ellison, the dog trailed and captured the man in a field and returned him to officers.
Officer William J. Murphy pursued a man after a horse was reported stolen from a Church Street stable. He brought in a former soldier, Walter Donahue of Chestnut Street, who escaped while the horse was tied. A watchdog named Betty tracked the hiding suspect to the bushes, bringing him to the patrol station. Betty, daughter of a German police dog who served in France and was gassed, had recent show prizes in Boston.
Edwin P. Dickinson of Milton, a Litchfield county centenarian who cast his first presidential vote for Henry Clay, died at his home in his 102nd year from general debility. Born January 4, 1821, he remained active on his farm until three years ago and voted in every presidential election since 1844, in every gubernatorial race, and in nearly every town election.
Oakley Kennemer was found not guilty of an attack on a Florence girl during a recent Athens religious convention. Russell Malloy, charged alongside Kennemer, was likewise…
Twenty seven patrolmen were added to the Boston police force as Commissioner Herbert A. Wilson appointed Harold H. Sturtevant John E. Striplin Edward S. Skehan James W. Schroeder Albert E. Ellis Duncan MacKillon to division 17 Thomas Dunn Hubert L. Canada John T. Sexton John S. Wellings to division 15 James W Goodfellow Francis O'Reilly James F. Quinn Frank E. Bathelmess Patrick J. Crowley to division 11 Gaetano DeGiacomo George L. Klages Frederick L. Wilson Jr to division 13 John F Bathal Joseph P. Cullinane to division 5 Walter J. Lindsay Alfons Kolaitis Roland G. Reid to division 8 John J. O'Keefe James J. Mulrey to division 6 Harold F. Fitzsimmons to division 12 and Thomas Carty to division 18.
Arthur E. O'Keefe a 24 year old Chelsea resident was arrested in Cambridge by Boston inspectors on charges of larceny by issuing a worthless check. He allegedly passed a $28 check under the name James Grover to a Washington street shoe store on July 7. Authorities say he was wanted by Worcester Lynn Chelsea and Revere police.
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